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Date Posted: Sun, 08/31/03 9:19pm
Author: OnB
Subject: Re: Possible New Members
In reply to: Ylva 's message, "Re: Possible New Members" on Sun, 08/31/03 5:00am

>>I think there are clearly a few people on the Indianz
>>board that we would want to think very carefully about
>>having over here...I personally appreciate the refuge,
>>the "safe" interactions on this board. Now I'm a "new
>>kid" to the Voy group, so I don't expect that I should
>>have a lot to say about the issue, but I think that
>>polling the membership about the candidates is still a
>>good idea. It's cool to have some things that you
>>earn...you feel more responsible for the way you
>>participate in something when it's like that.
>>It's nice being able to go somewhere for interaction
>>where you don't feel that having an opinion or JUST
>>POSTING opens you up as flame-bait....demonstrating
>>the capacity for respecting other folks even if you
>>disagree with them should just be a requisite and I
>>think evaluating that quality in a candidate before
>>inviting them has value.
>>I think inviting EVERYBODY just means you have 2
>>boards that are the same before too long.....vive' le
>>difference!
>>
>>OnB(justanopinion)
>
>You put that very well and I agree. Just like you, I
>haven't been around this board very long, so I didn't
>dare to be as quite as straight as you, also because
>I'm the second youngest here. But you know, just
>because we're young that doesn't have to mean we're
>not reasonable.

You know who else I would love to see here? ROSEBUD. She's clearly an elder type,(I think I got that right), she's always very instructive to read from, seems like a very pleasant and mature individual. One of the coolest things about hanging around the boards for me is getting to interact with older members of the NDN community in some semblance of a social forum- folks like Rosebud seem to be fairly genuinely who they are in their postings. Those are the sort of people I think I read from here at Voy...and I think it's another essential difference between this board and Indianz. I think the 'inmates' here are more "the genuine article", more mask wearing and negative game playing over there. Anywayz, some of the folks like her would be cool to invite.

OnB

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